EASY | LOCAL | IMPACTFUL
Composting that fits your life and gives back where you live.
Mother Nurture provides simple curbside food-scrap pickup for Delaware households. We handle the composting and turn what you set aside into finished compost for your yard or a local community garden.
Good for your community. Great for the earth.
2. We'll drop off your personal composting bin.
3. Toss in food scraps like peels and coffee grounds.
4. We'll pick up your bin and turn it into compost.
IT'S EASY
Doing good does not have to be complicated.
Set aside your food scraps in a bin we provide and leave the rest to us. Mother Nurture provides reliable curbside compost pickup every other week and handles the entire composting process. Here are some examples of household waste items we can accept:
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Food - cooked, raw, frozen, moldy! But please hold the meat...our bins are vegetarian
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Egg shells...our bins aren't vegan
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Coffee grounds and filters
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Pizza boxes - You can place these under your bin
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Houseplant trimmings
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Flowers
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Non-recyclable paper products that do not have a waxy coating
IT'S LOCAL
What starts in your kitchen stays connected to your community.
Your food scraps are turned into finished compost that can come back home or help a local community garden grow.
IT'S IMPACTFUL
A small household habit can create something meaningful.
Every household that composts keeps more food out of the landfill and puts those nutrients back into the soil.
Sign up today, and we
will drop off a bin for all of your non-meat food scraps.
You can toss in fruit peels, vegetable trimmings, coffee grounds, eggshells, and more.
We pick it up from your curb every other week.
We turn your scraps into garden compost for you
to keep or share.
One bucket is a great
place to start.
Easy, affordable composting for a cleaner, healthier Delaware.
Small scraps. Big impact.
50 million
The environmental impact of composting all of our food waste would be equivalent to taking 50-million gas powered cars off the road.
51%
Food waste and other organic materials comprise 51% of municipal solid waste landfills.
Up to 40%
Composting organic materials could reduce a household's waste by up to 40%, leading to lower trash bills.
